Amber saw it and looked embarrassed.
After all, Jared did deserve it.
This man had given her all kinds of things, clothes, jewelry, flowers and so on, and he wanted to give her everything good.
Especially when they just got back together, he gave her presents almost every day.
But she felt that if she kept taking things from him, and she couldn’t give anything of equal value back, she would feel bad and stress out, so she turned them all down.
And after he knew her attitude of rejection, he was more restrained and not so crazy to give her everything.
She was so relieved.
So, she really didn’t know that grandmother said he was stingy.
“Sorry, I don’t know that.” Amber lowered her head apologetically.
Jared rubbed the back of her head, “Okay, I’m not blaming you, and I know why you don’t want to take it. But it’s really not as serious as you think. We are lovers and will get married in the future. We are the closest people in the world. You can take what I give you without any pressure, because it is something I want to do. In fact, every time you say no, I feel like I’m not good enough and that’s why you don’t want to accept it.”
“No.” Amber shook her head, “I just…”
“I just.” Jared cut her off, “I just can’t help thinking that way sometimes. But I do know the real reason why you don’t want it. I just hope that you can be a little more relaxed in the future and take some of the things that I give, instead of rejecting all of them, because they are all my heart, ok?”
He looked at her with earnest anticipation in his eyes.
Amber couldn’t help but wonder if she did something wrong by simply refusing.
She remembered how frustrated Jared would be every time she turned down a gift or an offer of help.
Amber’s heart twitched.
She tried to put herself in his place. If she were Jared, how would she feel if she gave her guy the best gift she could think of, but he didn’t even look at them and said no?
Anyway, she was not gonna be happy. Her first reaction was, was she disliked? Was the gift she prepared not good enough?
Anyway, it didn’t feel good.
With that, Amber looked at Jared and realized her mistake.
She squeezed the corners of her mouth, smiled at the him, and nodded, “Okay, I’m not gonna say no to everything. I like anything from you and will consider accepting it. But only if it’s not too expensive.”
She couldn’t return a gift of equal value.
“Okay.” Jared listened to Amber and smiled.
In fact, he meant to say that, with his wealth, his gifts were not valuable to him.
After all, he could afford it.
But to her, it was.
It seemed that he would have to weigh the price of gifts in the future.
But it would be fine when they got married.
If they were married, would she be able to refuse what he wanted to give her as she did now?
Now she refused to do so just because she felt that they were not married, their relationship was just about a boyfriend and girlfriend who could be separated at any time, not husband and wife, so it was difficult for her to accept his gift.
Only when they got married would all the problems be solved.
But getting married…
Jared’s eyes flashed and he looked at Amber meaningfully.
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